PT-2023-30750 · Mattermost · Mattermost

Vultza · Published 2023-11-27 · Updated 2023-12-01 · CVE-2023-48268

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mattermost (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows an attacker to consume excessive resources, possibly leading to Denial of Service, by importing a board using a specially crafted zip (zip bomb) in Mattermost Boards. This occurs because Mattermost fails to limit the amount of data extracted from compressed archives during board import.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-48268

GHSA-J4C3-3H73-74M9

Affected Products

Mattermost

References · 8

• https://mattermost.com/security-updates · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48268 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-48268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-j4c3-3h73-74m9 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/61220 · Telegram Post
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-48268 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/61948 · Telegram Post